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Competitiveness: From a Dangerous Obsession to a Welfare Creating Ability with Positive Externalities

Aiginger, Karl - In: Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade 6 (2006) 2, pp. 161-177

The attempt to define the term “competitiveness of nations” has reached the phase of decreasing returns. Fortunately, the literature seems to be converging slightly, a tendency, we hope to accelerate. We propose (1) defining competitiveness as “the ability of a country or location to...

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The Matrix Approach to Industrial Policy

Aiginger, Karl; Sieber, Susanne - In: International Review of Applied Economics 20 (2006) 5, pp. 573-601

The objective of this paper is to analyse the development of industrial policy in the European Union. The changing concepts and rationale for industrial policy are reported with reference to the treaties and communications of the European Commission. Industrial policy has followed the course of...

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Revisiting an Evasive Concept: Introduction to the Special Issue on Competitiveness

Aiginger, Karl - In: Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade 6 (2006) 2, pp. 63-66

The term competitiveness stems from the analysis of firms and is usually thought to be well defined at the firm level. Today, however, the notion competitiveness has become a prominent concept in the assessment of countries, regions and locations. The competitive advantage of nations and the...

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Policy responses by different agents/stakeholders in a transition: Integrating the Multi-level Perspective and behavioral economics

Gazheli, Ardjan; Antal, Miklós; Drake, Ben; Jackson, Tim; … - WWWforEurope - 2013

Denmark. The detailed framework and associated literature for the analysis was discussed in Milestone 31 of the WWWforEurope …

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Large-Scale Transformation of Socio-Economic Institutions - Comparative Case Studies on CEECs. Interim Report

Schweickert, Rainer; Ahlborn, Markus; Frank, Karol; … - WWWforEurope - 2013

transition. With the perspective of our contribution to WWWforEurope, we concentrate especially on social welfare, innovation …

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Literature review on fundamental concepts and definitions, objectives and policy goals as well as instruments relevant for socio-ecological transition

Dimitrova, Anna; Hollan, Katarina; Laster, Daphne; … - WWWforEurope - 2013

The research project WWWforEurope undertakes to lie the theoretical and empirical foundations for the embarkment on a … – fundamental precondition for this. In short, the overarching question the WWWforEurope project attempts to answer is what kind of … and starting point of the WWWforEurope project. The necessity to accomplish a socio-ecological transition represents the …

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Innovation in the energy sector

Friesenbichler, Klaus - WWWforEurope - 2013

This study analyses the diffusion of renewable energy (RE) technologies. It analyses the transition dynamics as the sector broadens its energy mix and changes its capital stock. This shift is found to be desirable from an environmental, geopolitical and economic perspective. Yet, it greatly...

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Behavioral Foundations of Sustainability Transitions

Antal, Miklós; Gazheli, Ardjan; Bergh, Jeroen van den - WWWforEurope - 2012

"Writings on sustainability transitions generally do not say much about the particularities of the behavior of individuals and organizations. This is somewhat surprising since an important problem which transition management needs to tackle is inertia or resistance to change. Transition policy...

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The "resurrection" of industrial policy in the European Union and its impact on industrial policy in the New Member Countries

Török, Ádám; Csuka, Gyöngyi; Kovács, Bernadett; … - WWWforEurope - 2013

The aim of this study is to consider the main factors affecting the industrial policy in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) by elucidating the issues such as; the connection between competitiveness and industrial policy, innovation, manufacturing, green growth and environment. The...

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Large-Scale Transformation of Socio-Economic Institutions - Comparative Case Studies on CEECs. Background Paper 3: Varieties of Capitalism and CEECs

Szanyi, Miklós - WWWforEurope - 2013

transition. With the perspective of our contribution to WWWforEurope, we concentrate especially on social welfare, innovation …

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